--- Perrin Harkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 19:00, Bart Simpson wrote: > > What are some practical uses of APR::Base64? > > Sending binary data in ASCII. > > > Encoding > > credit card nums before storing in DB? Passwords? > > > No. It's not encryption. >
OK. its good for Encoding as in changing forms but not hiding from other readers. I think i get the difference. Encode does not imply any secrecy or privacy where as encrypt does. Aside [ I looked encode and cryptography (encrypt wasn't in my webster collegiate paperback) up before i posted to try to understand the difference and it said this leaving me not very much more enlightened. "encode" = "to convert (a message) into code" "cryptography" = "the encoding and decoding of secret messages" the two seemed pretty synonomous to me but now i see i didn't place enough importance on the lack of the word "secret" in the encode definition. :) ] > > I'm > > particular in need of encrypting/encoding credit > card > > nums before storing them > > Two-way encryption? Blowfish, with Crypt::CBC. > Storing credit cards is > a bad idea though. everyone says this. I'll look into letting someone else carry the liability. Thanks. > - Perrin > > > -- > Report problems: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ > Mail list info: > http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html > List etiquette: > http://perl.apache.org/maillist/email-etiquette.html > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail -- Report problems: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ Mail list info: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html List etiquette: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/email-etiquette.html
